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Kamera (2000)

by Jean-Philippe Toussaint(Favorite Author)

3.49 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

408760294 (ISBN13: 9784087602944)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

review 1: begins:"it was at about the same time in my life, a calm life in which ordinarily nothing happened, that two events coincided, events that, taken separately, were of hardly any interest, and that, considered together, were unfortunately not connected in any way." i think the story description is a tad...off. "a man who is obsessed with himself..." so on so forth. written by another...who? meh. i'd read the interview at the back of the story, if your copy contains the interview with jean-philippe...before reading the story as it perhaps provides the reader with a sense of direction...what was he trying to do with this story? his 2nd? there's some stuff about sentence length there...this 2nd has longer sentences...this that the other. also...he elaborates on the metaph... moreor of the camera so forth so on and scoobie doobie do.but i don't know that i get "a man who is obsessed with himself"...does not seem fair as we are all concerned with our self...to one degree or another. something else he says in the interview...reminds me of the seinfeld episode in which nothing happens...seinfeld and george, wanting to make a show about nothing. the story here...i take it...concerns its self with the nothing...cue the camera.anyway, gets you to thinking about pics, photos, privacy, the lack thereof, the intimacy displayed on the net...the lack of intimacy...i like looking at the furniture...the soffit and fascia, the screens on the windows...this once, i noticed a screen that had been applied upside down. heh! doorknobs and rain grooves...did the roofer chalk lines or simply wing it. knick-knacks and doilies...still life with bruised fruit. what's it all about? check it out...worth a read.
review 2: I'm finding I like French authors more and more each time I read one of their books. Toussaint is something like a neo-existentialist, and he continues proudly the tradition of his predecessors. Camera is a simple love story told with such detachment by the narrator that the perspective, despite being that of one party in the relationship, feels completely foreign to what are actually first-hand events. less

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